Burst
Written by: Ling Yide
2021-07-01 23:04
Last update date: 2021-07-02 01:12
Today (July 1) is the 24th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong. The July 1 parade was opposed by the police on the grounds of the epidemic. The police were on guard in many districts today. At night, a police officer was attacked in Causeway Bay with a knife. The assailant later stabbed himself with a knife. Location, online footage of the moment a police officer was hit by a knife was exposed.
At about 10 pm, a large number of police officers set up a cordon off East Point Road and Great George Street off SOGO in Causeway Bay. A PTU police officer on duty was suddenly attacked by a man with a knife. The left shoulder was hit with a knife. The assailant reportedly wounded someone. Later, he was seriously injured and was subdued by other police officers. According to on-site information, the attacked PTU police officer was hit by a knife near the shoulder. He was injured and evaded and fell to the ground. There were blood stains on his body and on the ground. An ambulance arrived at the scene to help the police officer. .
Sources at the scene stated that the Commissioner of Police Xiao Zeyi was present to understand.
According to the scene footage, a man with a backpack and spectacles stabbed a police officer from behind with a knife to the left shoulder position. The police officer was injured and frightened. He immediately avoided. The robes next to him turned around and pressed the gun bag with one hand. , A hand pointed at the assailant.
Sources at the scene said that a police officer drew a gun and pointed pepper spray at the assailant, and then the assailant stabbed his heart with a knife and spewed a lot of blood.
Both the police officer and the assailant fell to the ground, and both of them had to be sent to hospital for treatment.
The police officer was injured in his shoulder and had blood stains on his body and on the floor.
Online footage of police officer's attack was exposed:
The police strongly condemned the attack on a police officer with a knife in Causeway Bay. The police said that at about 10 pm, a man attacked a police officer on duty near East Point Road in Causeway Bay with a knife.
The man has been subdued. The incident caused a serious injury to the left back of a police officer. He is now sent to the hospital for treatment.
The police severely condemns such violent acts that seriously endanger the lives of others, and they must be investigated to the end.
Away from SOGO, a man stabbed the police officer with a knife, then stabbed him to his heart and was injured and sent to hospital.
(Photo by Yu Ruijing)
Police found 2 knives at the scene, including a fruit knife and a saber.
(Photo by Lin Zhenhua)
At about 11:20 p.m., the police intercepted a woman near the scene of the attack and found a knife on her body. She was shackled and carried into the police car.
(Photo by Yu Ruijing)
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